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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:54:10PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote |
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> I don't remember if Richard is on the -user list or not. I've no doubt |
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> he'd be happy to have your assistance; you put in a lot of work |
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> getting mdev to work for your purposes. (Whatever happened with that, |
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> anyway? Or am I getting the various walts in here mixed up?) |
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The Gentoo Wiki pages are at... |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB |
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I don't think I can claim responsibility for Richard Yao's decision |
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(along with others) to fork udev. I was one of the more visible |
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malcontents here on the user list, but there were other factors. |
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For many people here, "the udev controversy" means either moving /usr |
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to /, or booting with initramd. If that had been it, the fork might've |
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never materialized. The current systemd-udev team managed to piss off a |
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lot of people. |
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- people like me who didn't want to repartition their hard drives or |
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go to initramd, just because Lennart declared separate /usr "broken" |
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- people who had device drivers break, or at least hang for 30 or 60 |
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seconds at bootup, just because Lennart declared the old way of |
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loading firmware "broken" |
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- people who may not have been affected by the above, but were afraid |
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of Lennart's stated desire to roll udev completely into systemd and |
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thereby make systemd mandatory in linux |
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- and for good measure, throw in people who had problems with Lennart's |
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gratuitous sound daemon (pulseaudio) or gratutious network daemon |
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(avahi) whose primary function seems to be to auto-config link-local |
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addresses. And let's not forget the brouhaha over Poettering's and |
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Seiver's binary-syslog-with-undocumented-format idea |
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http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/1733236/secure-syslog-replacement-proposed |
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Lennart Poettering (and to a lesser extent Sievers) has pissed off a |
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lot of people (users, sysadmins, and developers). The situation resembles |
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the Xfree86 ==> Xorg revolt. Hopefully, the end result will be similar. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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We are apparently better off trying to avoid udev like the plague. |
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Linus Torvalds; 2012/10/03 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/349 |
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